"the public mind is the creation of the master-writers."

A bookshelf is protected by a plastic sheet during renovations to the Canaan Town Library.

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Worker Ted Wilson of the Sharon (VT) road crew closes a garage door at the town garage. Sharon's Selectboard will be going to voters at the Town Meeting with a budget increase, using part of it to fix deteriorating roads.

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front-row seat. lamoille at thetford.

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a day in the woods.

Richard Maxham prepares to tow a Chevrolet Colorado LT after the truck crashed into a line of trees along southbound Interstate 91 south of Ascutney, VT. Road conditions also contributed to the accident. No one was injured.

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draft horse logging.

I followed draft horse logger Ben Canonica for a day. Starting at dawn, he cuts down trees and uses draft horses to haul the logs to an open ground (where a truck brings the logs to the mill). Then at night he plays pond hockey.

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pushing the scouts.

Former Boy Scout 38 member Leo Hamel, 91, sits inside his home in Claremont, NH. The Boy Scouts of America celebrated its 100th anniversary last week. Hamel has been a member of the boy scouts since 1931. In 1955, Hamel was the first cub master for Cub Pack 38.

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psychic fair.

i. Debrah Wendorf, top, gets her palm read from Juliet Bell, bottom, during the Psychic Fair at the Opera House in Claremont, NH. Bell noted that Wendorf is highly analytical while aware of the values of right and wrong. "I feel a close connection to my reading," Wendorf, a Junior Accountant for Clinical Research, said. "I deal with these issues at work all the time."

ii. Michelle Avery, left, reacts to an Aura Photography reading from Ramona Nault, right. Aura Photography uses high voltages from an electrically-charged photographic plate to create a color radiant on a photograph. "When I go to these readings," Avery said. "Its interesting to see how close they [the fortunes] come in real life to what the readers say."

iii. Debrah Wendorf reacts to her palm reading from Juliet Bell.

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six generations and counting.

Painter Peter Marsh works in a hallway at the Baker-Berry Library at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. For six generations, Marsh's family has been employed at Dartmouth. His descendants came to New England in the 1620's, and his family first worked at the college in the late-1800's.

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basketball. bow vs. lebanon.

Lebanon's James Kane, left, is fouled by Bow's Joshua Faber, right, while approaching the basket.

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boys hockey. burlington vs. hartford.

i. Hartford's Drew Twitchell prepares to leave the penalty box after serving a minor penalty.

ii. Hartford's Duncan Dowd, left, tries to evade a check from Burlington's Connor Hayes, right.

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